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Liuboml fire, March 2026 Любомльський район · Ukraine

Out · last measured on 9 Mar 2026

The fire started on 9 March 2026 in Liuboml, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 113 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 59th largest in Volyn Oblast since 2016 (of 71 with a page). Number 862 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
113ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
9 Mar 2026 – 9 Mar 2026
Municipalities hit
0
districts
Started on
9 Mar
2026
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

15°high
27km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

28% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 32 ha in 2022.

What burned

  • Other natural land53 %
  • Agricultural areas30 %
  • Mixed forest13 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.6 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
9 Mar 15.1 °C 38 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
10 Mar after 15.6 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
11 Mar after 17.1 °C 38 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
12 Mar after 17.3 °C 38 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
13 Mar after 17.1 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
14 Mar after 16.9 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
15 Mar after 14.8 °C 33 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
16 Mar after 15.0 °C 32 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
17 Mar after 12.5 °C 49 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
18 Mar after 12.2 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
19 Mar after 10.8 °C 42 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 2 Mar 2026
After · 16 Mar 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 7 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 36 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 19: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak36 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM1042 µg/m³
Optical depth0.46
789101112
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Liuboml fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 9 March 2026 and 9 March 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 113 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 15.1 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 4, class Very low.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 101 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.